Multifunctional Environmentally-Friendly Straw Structure

ABSTRACT

A multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure comprising a first main body and a second main body, a first opening portion is formed at one side of the first main body, the second main body is correspondingly combined with the first main body, a second opening portion is formed at one side of the second main body, and the second opening portion and the first opening portion are correspondingly disposed and collectively define a circulation space.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of Invention

This present invention relates to a multifunctionalenvironmentally-friendly straw structure, and more particularly to amultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure withmultifunctional purposes and environmental effects.

Related Art

With the popularity of tea drinking culture, consumers usually buy a cupof tea when they dine. Among them, the bubble or boba milk tea is madeby adding and mixing tea with springy mouthfeel and chewy tapioca balls(or pearls), which is more popular among consumers. There are alsodrinks such as green tea, flower tea and juices added with tapiocaballs. When buying these beverages, the store will provide a plasticstraw for the consumer to suck the beverage. If the beverage is acidic,it is easy for the plastic straw to dissolve toxic and cause harm tohuman health. Both disposable chopsticks and plastic straws aredisposable products that can only be used one time and are discardedafter use. Disposable chopsticks and plastic straws will generate alarge amount of garbage and cause environmental problems.

As consumers become more aware of their personal health andenvironmental protection, many consumers have their own reusableenvironmentally-friendly tableware when they dine outside. But with allkinds of environmentally-friendly tableware, it is quite inconvenient tocarry, use and store, so that the consumers are often in the dilemma ofchoosing between health, environmental protection and convenience ofuse. Often, because of the lack of convenient storage and use ofenvironmentally-friendly tableware, they cannot be used continuously, sothat it is still practically difficult to reduce the usage amount ofdisposable chopsticks and plastic straws effectively.

In addition, the disposable chopsticks and straws on the market onlyhave a single function respectively. In other words, the disposablechopsticks only have the function of gripping food, and the straw onlyhas the function of sucking beverages, resulting in the disposablechopsticks and the straws having poor functionality and withoutadditional functions. Moreover, when consumers dine outside, it isnecessary to prepare the disposable tableware of chopsticks and straw atthe same time, thereby causing inconvenience.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Therefore, in order to effectively solve the above problems, a mainobjective of the present invention is to provide a multifunctionalenvironmentally-friendly straw structure with multifunctional purposes.

A secondary objective of the present invention is to provide a reusablemultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure.

Another secondary objective of the present invention is to provide amultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure withenvironmental effects.

In order to achieve the above objectives, the present invention providesa multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure comprising afirst main body and a second main body, a first opening portion isformed at one side of the first main body, the second main body iscorrespondingly combined with the first main body, a second openingportion is formed at one side of the second main body, and the secondopening portion and the first opening portion are correspondinglydisposed and collectively define a circulation space.

Through the design of the structure of the present invention, when thefirst main body and the second main body are in a separated state, auser can respectively hold a first side and a fourth side of the firstmain body and the second main body respectively, and use the firstopening portion and the second opening portion of the first main bodyand the second main body respectively to grip food, thereby forming afunction of chopsticks. If a fluid is to be sucked (the fluid refers tobeverages, tapioca balls, pearls, coconut jelly, etc.), only need toassemble the first main body and the second main body for the fluid topass through the circulation space, thereby forming a function of astraw. Therefore, the structural design of the present invention can notonly achieve the multifunctional purposes of the chopsticks and thestraw at the same time, it also has environmental effects.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective exploded view of a first embodiment of amultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure of the presentinvention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective combinational view of the first embodiment ofthe multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure of thepresent invention;

FIG. 3 is a first schematic view of the implementation of the firstembodiment of the multifunctional environmentally-friendly strawstructure of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a second schematic view of the implementation of the firstembodiment of the multifunctional environmentally-friendly strawstructure of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a perspective exploded view of a second embodiment of themultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure of the presentinvention;

FIG. 6 is a perspective combination view of the second embodiment of themultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure of the presentinvention; and

FIG. 7 is a perspective exploded view of a third embodiment of themultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The above objectives of the present invention, as well as its structuraland functional features, will be described in accordance with thepreferred embodiments of the accompanying drawings.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, which are respectively perspectiveexploded view and perspective combinational view of a first embodimentof a multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure of thepresent invention. As shown in the figures, a multifunctionalenvironmentally-friendly straw structure 1 comprises a first main body10 and a second main body 11. The first main body 10 has a first side100 and a second side 101, and a first opening portion 102 is formed atthe second side 101. The second main body 11 has a third side 110 and afourth side 111, and a second opening portion 112 is formed at the thirdside 110. The first main body 10 and the second main body 11 arecorrespondingly combined, and the second opening portion 112 and thefirst opening portion 102 are correspondingly disposed and collectivelydefine a circulation space 12.

In addition, in this embodiment, the first main body 10 and the secondmain body 11 are made with materials selected from any one of plastic orbamboo or wood or polymer materials or decomposable materials or metalmaterials, but are not limited to the aforementioned materials, and anymaterials that can be made into chopsticks or straws are included in thescope of the present invention, including the materials described above.

The multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure 1 furtherhas a sleeve member 13, the sleeve member 13 is correspondingly sleevedon the first and fourth sides 100 and 111 of the first main body 10 andthe second main body 11 respectively, and the purpose thereof is toincrease the fixity so as not to move arbitrarily after the first mainbody 10 and the second main body 11 are combined with each other. Thesleeve member 13 is made with a material selected from any one ofplastic or a polymer material or a decomposable material or a flexiblematerial, but is not limited to the aforementioned materials, and anymaterials that can make the sleeve member 13 flexible and elastic areincluded in the scope of the present invention, including the materialsdescribed above.

Please refer to FIGS. 3 and 4 together for the schematic views of theimplementation of the first embodiment of the multifunctionalenvironmentally-friendly straw structure of the present invention.Through the structural design of the present invention, when a userwants to use the straw structure 1 to grip a food 2, firstly, the firstmain body 10 and the second main body 11 are separated, and the userthen holds the first and fourth sides 100, 111 of the first main body 10and the second main body 11 respectively, and uses the first and secondopening portions 102, 112 of the first main body 10 and the second mainbody 11 respectively to contact the food 2 and perform gripping, so thatthe action of gripping the food 2 can be smoothly completed, therebyforming a function of chopsticks (as shown in FIG. 3). If the user wantsto suck a fluid 4 (the fluid 4 refers to beverages, tapioca balls,pearls, coconut jelly, etc.) contained in a container 3, it is onlyrequired to combine the first main body 10 and the second main body 11and use the sleeve member 13 to sleeve around the first main body 10 andthe second main body 11, and the circulation space 12 is provided forthe fluid 4 to pass through for sucking the fluid 4 smoothly, therebyforming a function of a straw (as shown in FIG. 4). Therefore, thestructural design of the present invention can not only achieve themultifunctional purposes of the reusable chopsticks and straw at thesame time, it also has environmental effects.

Please refer to FIGS. 5 and 6, which are respectively perspectiveexploded view and perspective combinational view of a second embodimentof the multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure of thepresent invention, the components and corresponding relationshipsbetween the components of the multifunctional environmentally-friendlystraw structure are the same as that of the aforementionedmultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure, and thereforeare not described herein again. However, the main differences betweenthis multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure and theforegoing are that, at least one combination portion 103 is furtherformed on the first opening portion 102, at least one butt portion 113is further formed on the second opening portion 112, and the buttportion 113 is correspondingly combined with the combination portion103. In other words, the combination portion 103 and the butt portion113 can be further formed on the first and second opening portions 102,112 respectively. In this embodiment, the combination portion 103 is ina convex strip shape, and the butt portion 113 is in a groove shape tobe combined with the convex strip correspondingly. Therefore, in thisembodiment, the combination portion 103 and the butt portion 113 of thefirst main body 10 and the second main body 11 respectively are combinedcorrespondingly to form the aforementioned straw; conversely, thecombination portion 103 and the butt portion 113 of the first main body10 and the second main body 11 respectively are separated to form theaforementioned chopsticks, and thus the aforementioned various effectscan also be achieved.

Finally, please refer to FIG. 7, which is a perspective exploded view ofa third embodiment of the multifunctional environmentally-friendly strawstructure of the present invention, the components and correspondingrelationships between the components of the multifunctionalenvironmentally-friendly straw structure are the same as that of theaforementioned multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure,and therefore are not described herein again. However, the maindifferences between this multifunctional environmentally-friendly strawstructure and the foregoing are that, the first main body 10 and thesecond main body 11 can be further divided into two parts respectively,that is, the multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure 1can be divided into four equal parts. Similarly, when the user uses it,it is only required to combine the first main body 10 and the secondmain body 11 which are divided into two parts respectively to become thechopsticks or the straw, thereby achieving the same effects as theprevious embodiments.

As mentioned above, the present invention has the following advantagesover the prior art:

1. has multifunctional purposes

2. reusable; and

3. has environmental effects.

It is to be understood that the above description is only preferredembodiments of the present invention and is not used to limit thepresent invention, and changes in accordance with the concepts of thepresent invention may be made without departing from the spirit of thepresent invention, for example, the equivalent effects produced byvarious transformations, variations, modifications and applications madeto the configurations or arrangements shall still fall within the scopecovered by the appended claims of the present invention.

What is claimed is:
 1. A multifunctional environmentally-friendly strawstructure, comprising: a first main body, a first opening portion beingformed at one side of the first main body, and a second main bodycorrespondingly combined with the first main body, a second openingportion being formed at one side of the second main body, and the secondopening portion and the first opening portion being correspondinglydisposed and collectively defining a circulation space.
 2. Themultifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure as claimed inclaim 1, wherein the first main body and the second main body arecombined to form a straw for a fluid to pass through the circulationspace.
 3. The multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structureas claimed in claim 1, wherein the first main body and the second mainbody are separated to form a pair of chopsticks.
 4. The multifunctionalenvironmentally-friendly straw structure as claimed in claim 1, whereinthe first main body has a first side and a second side, the second mainbody has a third side and a fourth side, the second side forms the firstopening portion, and the third side forms the second opening portion. 5.The multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure as claimedin claim 1, wherein the first main body and the second main body aremade with materials selected from any one of plastic or bamboo or woodor polymer materials or decomposable materials or metal materials. 6.The multifunctional environmentally-friendly straw structure as claimedin claim 1, wherein further comprising a sleeve member, and the sleevemember being correspondingly sleeved on outer sides of the first mainbody and the second main body.
 7. The multifunctionalenvironmentally-friendly straw structure as claimed in claim 6, whereinthe sleeve member is made with a material selected from any one ofplastic or a polymer material or a decomposable material or a flexiblematerial.
 8. The multifunctional environmentally-friendly strawstructure as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one combinationportion is further formed on the first opening portion, at least onebutt portion is further formed on the second opening portion, and thebutt portion is correspondingly combined with the combination portion.